Eli Sugerman is a writer and illustrator based in Chicago, Illinois. His writing has appeared in Mangoprism, Two Headed Press, Raging Opossum Press, and Same Faces Collective. Along with Dizzy Turek he is launching Borametz Press, an experimental publishing project.

Jessie McCarty is a Southern, Irish-American writer in Chicago. They have been published in The Minnesota Review, The Documentarian, Don’t Submit Lit, Thick Press, and more.  They write the newsletter Poetic Classifications on Substack. Yeats Fever & Other Poems, is forthcoming in 2025. Previous collections include: The Bovine Huff (Track and Field Studios, 2021) and Our Fairy Diary. Their experimental research has been published as chapbooks for the following theatrical productions: The Sarcoma Cycle, Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: A Homo-Turgy, and Perforated Play.

Dizzy Turek writes in Chicago but is originally from Ohio. Along with Eli Sugerman, he is launching Borametz Press, an experimental publishing project. find all other writing at @dizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzyy (26 zs) on Instagram and @dddddizzzzyzzz on Twitter.

Music that holds you while you cry: Hannah Sandoz creates a hushed atmosphere of tenderness through folkish song structures and avant-garde vocals. Born a Louisiana native, they took their songwriting practice to Chicago in 2021 and have been based there ever since. These songs draw from a love of rich textures and large rooms. They evoke distant memories; we stretch to remember details, but it's so blurry, you can't quite make it out…

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